THE DEFAULTERS5 LIST.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12689, 10 July 1919, Page 4

THE DEFAULTERS 5 LIST.

ADDITIONS AND EXCISIONS

A “ Gazette ” notice issued on Monday contains several names that have been added to the official list of military defaulters, and also a list of deletions from the original list. Names have been struck off the list in the cases of men who have been able to prove that they did not evade military service or that they actually served with the Forces. The names are as follow ■—

NAMES ADDED. Guiaey, Eddie, farmer, Aylesbury. Selby, George, care G.P.Oi, Wellington, Stapleton, Sidney, labourer. Raetihi.

NAMES DELETED. Abbott, Henry Robert, cook, Albemarle Hotel, Wellington (s.s. Koromiko). Agnew, William M’Gregor, tinsmith, care Mrs J. Taylor, Dunlow, Apa-

nuio. Armstrong, James, seaman, 160, Sawyers Arms Road, Papanui. Blair, Gordon, mechanic (40th to 43rd M.R.), Stratford. Oorkill, Robert, Top* Brake. - Stockton. OunJiffe, Arthur, seaman, Palmerston North. Faithful, James, labourer, 213, Wilson’s Road, Christchurch. Guilford, Henry Tracy, butcher, Waimiha. Haggar, James William Henry, wharf labourer, care of E. F. Buckle, 9, Lincoln Street, Brooklyn. Haine, Herbert Norris, labourer, Trentham Details, 14, Hawkestone Street, Wellington. Harris, Walter Charles Sydney., seaman, Tui Street, Kaiti, Gisborne. Johnston,. Michael, farm labourer, Kaiata, Greymouth. Oakley, Richard William, seaman, Selwyn Terrace, Lyttelton. Robertshaw Edgar, shepherd, Y.M.C.A., Wellington. Rod, Edward, steward, troopship Rua- ■ hine, or 47, Constable Street, Wellington. Rylands, Henry, carpenter’s labourer, P.W.D. Camp, Peatherston. §§lls. iia, PalagilA Orescenl, Wellington. Stapleton. Sydney, carpenter, Hamilton East.

Mr Joseph Wilson, of Hastings, and formerly of Christchurch, has received a cable from Ins eldest son, Sergeantmajor N, R. Wilson, stating that he will leave England about the end of this month. Sergeant-major Wilson has been connected with the educational scheme at Sling Camp, as Gregg shorthand instructor, since tne inception of the. scheme, and is well known in Christchurch as a commercial traveller. Bfe- went away with the Twenty-second Reinforcements.

“I am getting fairly old, and don’t want- to die of senile delay before this conference finishes,” observed a delegate at the Local Bodies’ Conference at Wellington last Wednesday, after he had listened patiently to several long speeches. Judging by the rate of progress being made, ho added, he never, exepected to get home again. A little after this gentle hint'was dropped the chairman applied the time limit, and the business was accelerated.